<p>With the rise of social media as a political tool, it seems elections may never be the same again. Social media has become a vital tool for political campaigns in pushing messages out as widely as possible, but can also be a campaign’s biggest stumbling block if they get it wrong.</p>

<p>Asset managers around the world are starting to unbundle and price research, even if new European rules don’t directly apply to them.* Clare Witts is the head of relationship management at ITG Asia Pacific.</p>

With regulation set to bring widespread changes across the European markets, The Trade Derivatives speaks to Euronext’s Adam Rose, head of Financial Derivatives, about how this will drive execution decisions in the equity options market in the next decade.

<p>The European Commission’s draft of MiFID II delegated acts, which was leaked in December, caused a stir regarding the use of commission sharing arrangements in paying for research going forward.</p>